Dale Earnhardt's first stint in the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona

Dale Earnhardt hops into the Corvette C5-R racer during the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona for his first stint during the race. Includes a fantastic "ride along" with him. I'm pretty sure if you look closely, you can see a sly little grin under the infamous moustache, as he was having an absolute blast doing this race. I have no doubt that had he not been tragically killed just a couple weeks later, he and Jr. would have found a way to compete in the 24 Hours of LeMans for sure.

I recorded practically the entire 25 hours of live coverage, and now I'm working on uploading them to the web.

I'm going through the tapes now, I will upload more as I find clips worth posting!

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• Dale
• Earnhardt
• Jr
• 2001
• Rolex
• 24
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• Daytona
• Corvette
• C5R
• Speedvision
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[SaidHead]

3 questions:

1. How many Rolex 24's do you have?

2. Can you post the start of this race.

3. How can I obtain this race on DVD/tape?

[azbobbybooshay10]

I have just the one, as it was the only one shown flag-to-flag as of yet. My DVD recorder is busted right now but I will see what I can do about getting more of the race uploaded. There are some interesting bits in the overnight hours when it was raining while the Earnhardt's were driving. ;)

[DC322]

Dale Jr. race 24 hour race on a Crawford DP with Tony Stewart four years ago.

[azbobbybooshay10]

That was the race that Smoke had the wheel come off with 20 minutes to go, wasn't it?

[trish810]

Thank you ao much for posting this! If there is a clip of jr driving could you post that too? Thanks?

[azbobbybooshay10]

I have practically the entire race on tape, and Jr did drive alot. As I work through the tapes I will upload clips of Jr. as well.

[Ruddfan1997]

RIP Speedvision

[clholsinger]

Get after it Dale!

The guy could drive anything. nuff said.

[N3oNPREDATOR69]

This race was automatically made 1,000,000,000% better when senior got in the car.

[JudgeTread1]

I've done driver changes before in races. Its stressful and adrenaline pumping like nothing else. Even so more than waiting for the green flag or a pitstop. I'm not sure why.

[GardnM3]

Anyone who dislikes this has no soul

[CBright7831]

@dlwile33 - He finished 4th overall and 2nd in class.

[GTAracer24]

@aqinthe yea. sadly.

[aqinthe]

@GTAracer24 Now Speed has more dumb custom car shows than actual racing.

[GTAracer24]

When Speed was Speedvision...................

[madmax2069]

I watched this from flag to flag. i only wish i could find the whole race somewhere to watch again.

[dlwile33]

If I'm correct, Did Jr. and Sr. finish 2nd overall in that race?

[ltal0308]

That was cool as hell watching Dale Earnhardt banging gears in a C5R, was it not?